Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation 2015, para. 79
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The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights relies on the standard of reasonableness and has developed criteria to assess whether the measures taken by States are reasonable, including:
(a) The extent to which the measures taken were deliberate, concrete and targeted towards the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights;
(b) Whether the State party exercised its discretion in a non discriminatory and non-arbitrary manner;
(c) Whether the steps had taken into account the precarious situation of disadvantaged and marginalized individuals or groups and, whether they were non discriminatory, and whether they prioritized grave situations or situations of risk (see E/C.12/2007/1, para. 8).
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation